Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — Commence Work For ’96. [ARTICLE]

Commence Work For ’96.

Though sustaining a severe temporary defeat the democracy is already recovering itself for the conflict two years hence. The lova demorrats realize that their party has made a record to be proud of and have already commence I Mie labor for the presidential campaign. Reviewing the c uses for active democratic work the Plymouth Democra' tells s os democratic accomplishments as follows: When the democratic party;came into power in the nation in Maxell, 1893, f hey found the McKinley tariff bill on the statute books —a bill which robbed the many to enrich the few! That bill the democrats repealed and enacted in i s stead, a measure, while not as sweeping in .ts scope of reform as was desired by many, was, nevertheless, calculated to break down the prohibitory wall of protection and place the country on a revenue basis, collecting no more from the people than was necessary to defray the expenses of the government economically admin.stered! From the date of its passage until the election there was not time enough to put it m uperation, so that its good effects become apparent, and enough democrats deserted the party and joineiwith the republicans to defeat the very object they had foi years been fighting for! The democrats also found on the statute books the Sherman silver purchasing act which was conceded to be one great cause of the panic that was charged to the democratic party when it had nothing what ever to do in bring it about. This they repealed. They also fou._d on the statute books the law atftboiizing the ap pointment of United States mar shale to control elections in the south especially, and elsewhere generally, in the interest of the republican party. This law the democrats repealed, and this year, for the first time since the war, you were permitted to go to the polls without the authority to be con fronted by the United States mar shale to te 1 you what duty was as free American citizens

The democrats repealed the law giving the southern sugar planters a bounty out of the treasury of the United States of $12,000,000, at the expense of the farmers of the north. The democrats enacted a law authorizing the taxation 0fp346, 000,000 greenbacks that have here tofors escaped taxation. The democrats enacted a law taxing incomes when over 4,000, thus relieving the taxation of the results of labor t that extent. These are out a few of the many measures in the interest of the people passed by the democrats during the short period they have been in power. We cannot stop to enumerate all ot them. In Indiana the democratic party gave you: Tho Australian ballot law which insures a free ballot and a failcount; It gave you the new school book law that saves to the school children of the state tens of thousands of dollars; It gave you the new tax law which compels railroads and other wealthy corporations in the state to pay their just proportion of taxes; It gave you the new county offl-> cer’s fee and salary law which saves fabulous sums in fees and taxes to the taxpayers of the state; And it gave you many other just laws i.i the interest of labor and the common people generally, that we have notspace toenume.rare.

And all in all, is this not a record of which any party might well feel proud, and is it not such a record as entitles the democratic party to a fair and impartial trial and a further continuance in power until, at least, the new tariff 1 ,w has had time to go into full operation? - - Do you want a re-enactment of the McKinley bill? Do you vant the Sherman silver purchasing law re-enacted? Do you want the southern sugar bounty restored? Do yuu want the federal marshal’s election law re-enacted? Do you want the income tax Jaw repeak d? l>o you want the law repealed that authorizes the taxation of greenbacks? Do you want our state tax law repealed? Do you want the Australian bal . lot law repealed? Do vou want the school b ok law and thefother democratic laws we have named repealed?| ( Those democrats who voted the republican ticket on the 6th iust, eoted to do all these things! But

we do not believe they voted understanding it in that way! Let us, therefore, fellow democrats, buckle on our armdr for the great conflict of 1896! The principles of the democratic pa’ty are the principles of the people, and they must prevail! Let us go to work bow determined to.win, and victory will crown our efforts at the November election in 1896, as sure as the sun rises and sets on that day.

Two years ago Aaron Hirschfield, a rich Helena merchant, against the wishes of his family, married a young and pretty typewriter of unquestioned reputation. After the marriage Hirschfield’s love suffered a relapse, and spurred on bv his relatives, he instituted a suit for divorce, alleging unfaithfulness on the part of his wife. Mrs. Hirschfield fought the case, and'at the trial, which ended Sat urday, it developed that a conspir acy had been entered irtoto wr< ok an innocent woman’s reputation. Witnesses were produced who de tailed how they had consen ed for a money consideration to swear away the honor of a woman whom they had never seen. The revela tions were shocking enough +o damn the conspirators. The di vorce was refused. Cow Mrs. Hirschfield will sue on her own account for a separation and bring civil and criminal proceedings against the husband and his fami ly We hope that she will make it interesting for them.

Somebody has ‘turhed the crank’ and ground out the following: The man who writes, and writes in verse, is seldom worth a tinker’s curse. The man who plays the violin, is always lazier than sin. The man who thinks he knows it all, displays a mighty sight of gall. The man who thinks himself the best, is he whom we sho’d all detest. But he who pavs the printer is, the noblest Roman in the ‘biz.’

France is more from business depression than any other European country and yet it has more money ia circulation per capita than any other. Thi-i proves that business depends upon some ;hing else besides plenty of mon ey.

A convention representing 500 flouring mills met in Chicago racently and agri ed to close down for three months in order to make lour scarce and thus boom prices. It may work well enough for the mill trust who have the iarmers’ 50 cent wheat in their bins, but it will be a lit le tough on the mill employes and all who have to buy flour. Warden French, of the prison north, says “six hundred of the nine hu dred men in that prison lave told me that their downfall is due to liqotrr,” and adds further that “two thirds of the convicts are single men ”